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I wonder, if a phone with folding screen truly was a Jobs Steve's "joke?" May be it wasn't, but what a bad design decision it is.

What I hear here in China are engineers saying that "all it took a fashionable American CEO to make up a joke about phone with folding screen for Huawei and Samsung to spend billions actually making it."

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Over the years Apple was famous for pantenting some pretty crazy ideas. I’m on the record saying I would never want a folding screen for many reasons, fragility being one. As for Jobs playing a joke?

I’ll just leave this here https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2002/06/china-pap...

China may not share our understanding of satire and sarcasm, but you’d think Korea would understand the basic tenants of engineering and design.

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